Phishing Attack

A bad actor has managed to pull off a phishing attack on a major liquidity provider for the Uniswap v3 protocol. The campaign saw the hacker(s) loot a minimum of $4.7 million worth of Ether from the platform. According to internal reports, the total amount of stolen tokens could be even more. Alarms Go Off on Twitter Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao had earlier posted regarding the attack after the exchange company’s threat intel spotted suspicious movement. CZ shared a tweet…

A trying week for the crypto community closed in even lesser glamorous style as phishing attacks followed the dour market.  While the surprising crash of stablecoins and the collapse of LUNA disturbed many, attackers seized the bad week to wreak more havoc.  Earlier today, CoinGecko raised a scam alert on Twitter. The Singapore-based data aggregation company warned its users to disregard any prompt to connect wallets to the CoinGecko site. In a quick responsive post, the data aggregator made it…

An aggrieved Trezor user has filed a class-action lawsuit against Intuit which is the parent company of Mailchimp. Trezor users previously reported phishing attacks as part of a breach of a Mailchimp newsletter database. Levinson v. Intuit Earlier this month, Trezor, a producer of hardware wallets, launched an investigation into phishing attacks targeting its users. This was due to a data breach involving Mailchimp's services. Alan Levinson, a Trezor user, reportedly lost $87,000 worth of cryptocurrency from his Trezor wallet…